October 11, 2012 Mark Hagland
We at Healthcare Informatics are passionately committed to bringing forward the exciting case studies of the teams and organizations in healthcare that are showing the way forward to the new healthcare. Does your healthcare organization have a team that should be recognized for its achievements? If so, it's time for that team to submit a nomination to our Innovator Awards program.
October 8, 2012 Mark Hagland
As if the landscape weren't already clear, a recent MedPAC report underscores the multifaceted challenges facing hospitals of all types when it comes to succeeding under Medicare's mandatory readmissions program.
October 2, 2012 Mark Hagland
As tip-of-the-spear healthcare industry leaders, senior executives at the UPMC health system see where the proverbial puck is headed, and they’re skating towards it as powerfully as they can.
September 26, 2012 Mark Hagland
I was fascinated to read the September 17 joint announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that those two federal departments had successfully demonstrated the successful use of metadata tagging in the exchange of patient health data.
September 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
A recent New York Times investigative article, based on an HHS Office of the Inspector General report, signals that the mainstream media are beginning to look more critically and closely at both the benefits and some possible drawbacks, of EHRs. Could we be entering a new era of intensified scrutiny of healthcare providers?
September 15, 2012 Mark Hagland
As David Share, M.D. and his colleagues at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan collaborate forward with local providers to master care management and utilization strategies, the criticality of leveraging analytics thoughtfully becomes ever-more-apparent. We’ll be discussing these issues in our upcoming Healthcare Informatics webinar on Sept. 25, and learning from the experiences of some of the most pioneering organizations nationwide.
September 12, 2012 Mark Hagland
David Nash, M.D. was extremely prescient when he established the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in 2008. Is population health moving squarely onto the center of the radar screens of healthcare leaders yet? Tune into the September 20 Healthcare Informatics webinar to find out.
September 10, 2012 Mark Hagland
The Institute of Medicine’s new comprehensive report, “Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health care in America,” advocates a healthcare system of continuous performance improvement—and healthcare IT leaders will be at the center of the action
August 29, 2012 Mark Hagland
What's most fascinating about the final rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use is not what was surprising, but what wasn't surprising. Then again, the leaders of the pioneering patient care organizations in this country already understand the direction of the new healthcare; for them, meaningful use is just one (very big) element in the overall operational landscape.
August 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
On a trip to Albuquerque, I shared a ride with Linda Martinez, R.N., a clinical nurse specialist whose work with the groundbreaking Hospital at Home program at Presbyterian Health Services offers insight into the future of the healthcare delivery system.
